A315 crash in Kensington and Chelsea on 15 December 2013 at 13:48 involving a Peugeot 208
A Peugeot 208 and a Suzuki VZ 800 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A315 in Kensington and Chelsea at 13:48 on Sunday 15 December 2013. The 58-year-old female rider of the Suzuki VZ 800 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Dec 2013
- Sunday, 13:48
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 208 and Suzuki VZ 800
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49979, longitude -0.19622, in the W8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kensington and Chelsea. It is one of the crashes that make up the Campden, Kensington and Chelsea, W8 7NU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Kensington and Chelsea
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201301BS70761
- Council area
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 315
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 1 March 2017.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A315 in Kensington and Chelsea, 1 March 2017
At the same spotRef 2017010023853
Slight
Honda crash on the A315 in Kensington and Chelsea, 18 June 1990
At the same spotRef 199001BD00223
Serious
Car crash on the A315 in Kensington and Chelsea, 14 October 1986
At the same spotRef 198601BD00324
Slight
Volvo crash on the A315 in Kensington and Chelsea, 11 August 2018
At the same spotRef 2018010126457
Slight
Honda CMX 500 crash on the A315 in Kensington and Chelsea, 15 July 2025
1 m awayRef 2025010586879
Serious
Mini Countryman crash on the A315 in Kensington and Chelsea, 4 March 2019
8 m awayRef 2019010166930
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 208
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Suzuki VZ 800
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 805 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 58, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Suzuki VZ 800)
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 201301BS70761 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Kensington and Chelsea road accident statistics for 2013.